Re: Delphi

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

bobryan9@my-deja.com wrote:

> Delphi is no longer offering "premium" accounts!

Are you referring to the $35 a year telnet accounts?

> What does that mean?
> All of the "delphi-ware" can only be accessed by a select few

Some select few - anyone smart enough to pay the $35 fee before whatever
you claimed happened happened, if it did. :-) Sadly, I wasn't one of the
smart ones.

> who had
> premium accounts before Delphi discontinued acceptance of new accounts.
>
> What do you think Apple2Central is all about?  They need a place to
> go.

I don't see how you figure that. At this moment I'm also in the A2 forum,
and there are new posts all over the place.

>
> Why is Delphi no longer offering "premium" accounts?  Because the time,
> money, and effort to maintain the text access and the password locked
> libraries isn't worth the money they are bringing in from it.

So Delphi is dumb. So was Genie, Prodigy, The Source, and even Compuserve.
All lost out, one way or another to AOL, usually by bad business decisions.
Prodigy went down because they couldn't afford to do Y2K updates to their
software because there were too few people using it. Delphi's decision had
nothing to do with the Apple ][ forums there, at least not them alone.

Roy